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Engineering Alumni Association Kicks Off eWeek with Reception & Program Engineering Alumni Association Kicks Off eWeek with Reception & Program

For one week in February engineers around the country are celebrated as part of National Engineers Week, a program that raises awareness of the crucial contributions made by… Read More
Professor Jose Contreras-Vidal, known for his work with prosthetics and brain-computer interfaces, with students. UH Engineering Rises in U.S. News Rankings

The UH Cullen College of Engineering is several steps closer to landing a spot among the Top 50 engineering colleges in America. The 2019 U.S. News and World Report rankings place… Read More
Debora Rodrigues, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, is part of an effort to learn more about how bacteria and fungus interact in soil, work that could lead to advances in bioenergy. Researchers Study Fundamental Interactions in Soil Communities

DOE-Funded Work Could Lead to Advances in Bioenergy Researchers traditionally have studied individual microorganisms independently of how those organisms interact with their… Read More
Industrial engineering alumnus Victor Zaloom A Passion for Paying it Forward: Q&A With Victor Zaloom

Victor Zaloom (Ph.D. IE '70) is a man with interests as broad and deep as the industrial engineering (IE) field in which he works. A professor of industrial engineering at Lamar… Read More
Industrial engineering student Amanda Herrera The Reality of Project-Based Learning

Industrial engineering professor Randal Sitton begins his "Engineering Systems Design" class with the same introduction each year: "This is the hardest class you're ever going to… Read More
Yan Yao, a University of Houston engineering professor, wins a Scialog award for his work with batteries. Battery Expert Powers Up With a Scialog Award

When it comes to batteries, UH engineer Yan Yao never runs out of award-winning ideas. Yao, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the UH Cullen College… Read More
UH engineering researchers made Angewandte Chemie International Edition From Exploding Hoverboards to Tomorrow’s Batteries: UH engineering team lands on front cover of prestigious publication

Yan Yao Receives Scialog Award A paper about safer batteries made with organic materials written by a team of researchers at the UH Cullen College of Engineering made the cover of… Read More
Dr. Phaneendra Kondapi, director of the subsea engineering program at the University of Houston. Diving Deep to Launch UH Subsea Engineering to New Heights: Q & A with the New Subsea Program Director

When it comes to subsea engineering education, the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering has a tradition of taking the lead. UH started the country’s first academic… Read More
Cunjiang Yu, a mechanical engineering professor at the University of Houston, won a 2018 ONR Young Investigator Award UH Researcher Developing Smart Artificial Skin Inspired by Underwater Masters of Camouflage

Cunjiang Yu wins 2018 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award Imagine U.S. Navy divers wearing camouflage ‘skin’ suits and gathering intelligence. They could swim… Read More
Dr. E. May, UH biomedical engineering professor, appointed NSF program director UH Biomedical Engineering Professor Appointed by National Science Foundation as Program Director

Researcher says 'Science has no boundaries and it’s exciting to see that in action.' Elebeoba E. May, associate professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Houston… Read More